Instead, the Department of Education will reimplement a 2009 version of the national curriculum.

Catholic News Agency

LIMA, Peru — The Peruvian government will withdraw a 2016 national school curriculum that has been widely criticized for its “gender ideology.”

In a Nov. 24 statement, Peru’s Department of Education announced that a 2009 version of the National Curriculum will be reimplemented in Peruvian schools. The former curriculum does not include the gender ideology concepts addressed in the 2016 version.

The announcement was celebrated as a “new victory for parents” by a group using the hashtag #ConMisHijosNoTeMetas (“Don’t you mess with my children”). In March 2017, the group organized marches in Peru, drawing more than 1.5 million people to demonstrate against a progressive gender ideology.

The 2017 National Curriculum for Basic Education was approved by the Department of Education in late 2016, despite criticism from parents, teachers, the Catholic Church, and several Christian groups in the country.

The Peruvian bishops’ conference had criticized the Department of Education for including in the new curriculum “concepts which do not proceed from the Constitution, but rather are taken from so-called gender ideology.”

“Pope Francis has warned that gender ideology denies the difference and the natural reciprocity of man and woman,” the bishops stated.

In August, Peru’s Superior Court of Justice ruled in favor of a lawsuit filed against the Department of Education, arguing that the curriculum was an attempt to indoctrinate schoolchildren.

In a statement to ACI Prensa, Sergio Burga, a researcher with the Population Research Institute’s Latin American office, described the measure taken by the Department of Education as “a great victory for the thousands of parents represented by #ConMisHijosNoTeMetas.”

Burga said that by removing the 2016 curriculum from schools, “pernicious expressions have been eliminated, such as ‘construct your identity,’ ‘gender identity’ and even ‘what is masculine or feminine is constructed day-by-day.’”

Burga said that although it was less offensive to parents’ groups, some similar concerns have been raised about the earlier curriculum, which will now be reviewed by advocates and parents.

For Burga “the fight” in the defense of the family “goes on.”

This article was originally published by ACI Prensa. It has been translated and adapted by CNA, its sister news agency.

Excellent! When people are well informed, they can resist bullying by the elite politicians…they have learned from the failures in the USA, where liberal politicians disguised their intent making changes to reduce “bullying”. Respect for ALL, was not enough for them, but to make special rules not only to make the rest of us to accept the insanity as normal, but now they want us to celebrate it ... or lose our rights.

Posted by Graeme Reid on Monday, Dec, 4, 2017 5:39 PM (EST):

Wikipedia says:
“Dysphoria is a profound state of unease or dissatisfaction.
In a psychiatric context, dysphoria may accompany depression,
anxiety, or agitation. It can also refer to a state of not
being comfortable in one’s current body, particularly in
cases of gender dysphoria….”
So gender Dysphoria is certainly a psychiatric condition.
It may apply to a minority but Dysphoria certainly does
not apply to anywhere near the majority of humanity.
It is ‘not’ a condition of the body!
But it ‘is’ a condition of the ‘spirit’;
and likely driven largely by past or present environment
or acquaintances or indoctinations.
Through humility, resolution and faith in Jesus Christ with
sincere prayer, such conitions
can surely be largely rectified; but we would likely
find that the majority of sufferers would reject such cures
And those who push agendas that such conditions are normal
would also certainly reject such cures.
Nevertheless, we do have psychiatrists.
Although some psychiatrists likely need psychiatrics too,
others work for the perpertrators of such agendas.

Posted by Kevin Rahe on Sunday, Dec, 3, 2017 9:10 PM (EST):

Those who suffer gender dysphoria essentially find their body to be a curse instead of a blessing, even though it may be completely healthy and in excellent physical shape. As Christians we can be nothing but thankful for such a tremendous gift as a healthy body. It would be sinful to affirm that an objectively good thing is actually bad, even if the person who possesses it feels that way. Such a person needs to be treated with kindness and compassion, but to go along with the delusion that their mental issue of gender dysphoria is really a problem with a healthy body does them an injustice.

This is fake news, as Peru is not withdrawing or changing its education curriculum. The so called “gender ideology” which is nothing else than education for equality and respect for all, remains in place under the same terms and conditions. VOA is adding their own meaning to tweets by the Minister of Educqtion, which may have been confusing. The is nothing to it. The evangelical or catholic hate agenda do not decide education matters in Peru.

Posted by Graeme Reid on Saturday, Dec, 2, 2017 8:05 PM (EST):

Regardless of denials by the obviously uninformed,
or by those who don’t desire to be informed,
a male is a male and female is a female;
a boy is a boy and girl is a girl.
Those who strangely do not accept this were
themselves conceived via a male and a female
and not via male and male or by female and female.
For them to find this repulsive, or deny this, in
the face of undeniable evidence,
shows their distorted philosophy of human life
for what it really is, and for what it is worth.
Children who through no fault of their own find
themselves in the care of a homosexual couple or a
lesbian couple, and yet are the opposite sex to
them, are surely particularly the ones in danger
of being indoctrinated by the couple that they are
really transsexual or that they
really are supposed to be, or meant to be, the same sex
as the said carers.
This can cause all sorts of psychological problems for
the children.
One thing can always be guaranteed with absolute certainty;
that is that any child under the care of lesbians or homosexuals,
is definitely not a child of a relationship between them;
and neither can any other child be procreated
through any off beat sexual relationship between them
no matter how many times they marry or try to conceive.
The transsexual people agendas, as many other agendas,
are a frauds, lies and deceptions as are so many other
globalization oriented agendas!
We send our Children to school to attain intelligence;
not to be de-brained by elitist garbage agendas!

Posted by kmbold on Saturday, Dec, 2, 2017 3:56 PM (EST):

Brave, courageous, and bold. Where are these traits in American, especially Californian, parents?

This is very sad news and will allow continued intolerance, bullying and criminal acts towards an already suffering minority population. It is a shame that the Peruvian department of education felt the need to bow to uninformed pressure. They were on the right track until now.

Posted by Donald Link on Saturday, Dec, 2, 2017 1:45 PM (EST):

Having lived and traveled in third world countries for over fourteen, I have noticed that some are eager to jump on the latest western fads (climate, sexual mores, over reaching government) to demonstrate their progressivism. In every instance, not only were they met with failure, but managed to damage their society in the process. What passes for modern thinking in western countries today is little more than self indulgence and license. They would be well advised to look carefully before importing destructive foreign notions.

Posted by Goldengekko on Saturday, Dec, 2, 2017 1:41 PM (EST):

BRAVO!!!

Posted by Jerry Todd on Saturday, Dec, 2, 2017 1:04 PM (EST):

Now to wake up anti-American, anti-Christian California and its depraved educational norms.

Posted by Mary Ann Chimera on Saturday, Dec, 2, 2017 12:42 PM (EST):

Three cheers for Peruvian parents! Love the hashtag #Don’tMessWithMyChildren. It should be adopted everywhere to end this inane conspiracy to confuse children on sexual issues.

Posted by bumble bee on Saturday, Dec, 2, 2017 9:08 AM (EST):

While I am sympathetic to those who suffer from gender dysphoria, to demand that others reinforce this is insanity. Next up will be everyone needing to recognize and reinforce as actually existing the hallucinations (visual, and auditory) sufferers of schizophrenia endure. Just because it is real to them, does not make it reality. Gender dysphoria sufferers need help, professional help, and do not need to be subjected to torment and harassment from people. However, everyone else does not need to “play” along either.

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